Voltex Vortex

About Us

Raúl Barrera – Lead Engineer

Raul is a degree qualified mechanical and electrical engineer, with a career spanning over 20 years. With national competencies as a Statutory Surface Coal Electrical Engineering Manager, and hazardous area classification and design, he is also an accredited auditor for HV and Hazardous Area electrical installations.

Beginning his engineering career in construction projects such as Pepsi Company bottling plants and with Liebert Corporation on large scale UPS and power protection infrastructure, Raul continued as project engineer for Pemex refineries in Mexico. Here he worked with 138 kV OHL supply, on a gas processing plant and Merox Treaters upgrade, and a sour gas plant (amine gas treatment process). In 2000 Raul conducted research for the Queensland Manufacturing Institute for their High Velocity Oxy-Fuel program. In 2002 for Peabody Underground, he managed electrical design and installation up to 66 kV for fuelling systems, re-agents (Hazardous areas) for gold and copper mines at Cannington in Qld, Ridgeway in NSW, and Telfer and Perseverance in WA. In 2004, he worked on the 330kV Snowy Hydro Tumut 1 UG feeders to Dederang substation (Vic) including testing of the connection arrangement on the 1950’s oil-filled cables still in service.